extensible firmware interface (efi) · Maintained

Maintainers

• M Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
• R Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>

Paths

• F Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst
• F arch/*/include/asm/efi.h
• F arch/*/kernel/efi.c
• F arch/arm/boot/compressed/efi-header.S
• F arch/x86/platform/efi/
• F drivers/firmware/efi/
• F include/linux/efi*.h
• X drivers/firmware/efi/cper*

Last 30 days

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-doc (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• COOLING14d [PATCH 3/4] kho: rename KHO scratch to KHO bootmem
  2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COOLING14d [PATCH 2/4] memblock: rename KHO_SCRATCH to KHO_NOPRSRV
  2026-08-11 · Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
• COLD41d [PATCH v7 10/10] RAS: add firmware-first CPER provider
  2026-07-08 · Ahmed Tiba <hidden>
• COLD41d [PATCH v7 07/10] ACPI: APEI: introduce GHES helper
  2026-07-08 · Ahmed Tiba <hidden>
• STALE104d [PATCH v16 37/38] x86/efistub: EFI stub DRTM support for Secure Launch
  2026-05-15 · Ross Philipson <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/3] Add splash DRM client
  2026-05-12 · Francesco Valla <hidden>
• STALE219d [PATCH 09/12] ghes: route error handling through shared estatus core
  2025-12-17 · Ahmed Tiba <hidden>
• STALE219d [PATCH 07/12] ghes: prepare estatus hooks for shared handling
  2025-12-17 · Ahmed Tiba <hidden>
• STALE219d [PATCH 06/12] efi/cper: adopt estatus iteration helpers
  2025-12-17 · Ahmed Tiba <hidden>
• STALE219d [PATCH 05/12] ras: flesh out estatus processing core
  2025-12-17 · Ahmed Tiba <hidden>
• STALE219d [PATCH 04/12] ras: add estatus queuing and IRQ/NMI handling
  2025-12-17 · Ahmed Tiba <hidden>
• STALE219d [PATCH 03/12] ras: add estatus vendor handling and processing
  2025-12-17 · Ahmed Tiba <hidden>
• STALE219d [PATCH 02/12] ras: add estatus core implementation
  2025-12-17 · Ahmed Tiba <hidden>
• STALE219d [PATCH 01/12] ras: add estatus core interfaces
  2025-12-17 · Ahmed Tiba <hidden>
• STALE156d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v15 28/28] x86/efi: EFI stub DRTM launch support for Secure Launch
  2025-12-15 · Ross Philipson <hidden>
• STALE293d [PATCH v11 5/9] x86/efi: Disable LASS while mapping the EFI runtime services
  2025-10-29 · Sohil Mehta <hidden>
• STALE322d [PATCH v3] Documentation/x86: explain LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID
  2025-10-13 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE306d [PATCH v10 06/15] x86/efi: Disable LASS while mapping the EFI runtime services
  2025-10-07 · Sohil Mehta <hidden>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2 RESEND] Documentation/x86: explain LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID
  2025-09-22 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE345d [PATCH v2] Documentation/x86: explain LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID
  2025-09-16 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE327d [PATCH RESEND 55/62] init: rename CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD to CONFIG_INITRAMFS
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE327d [PATCH RESEND 42/62] init: rename <linux/initrd.h> to <linux/initramfs.h>
  2025-09-14 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE327d [PATCH RESEND 25/62] init: rename phys_initrd_{start,size} to phys_external_initramfs_{start,size}
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE327d [PATCH RESEND 11/62] init, efi: remove "noinitrd" command line parameter
  2025-09-13 · Askar Safin <hidden>
• STALE355d [PATCH] x86/Documentation: explain LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID
  2025-09-10 · Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
• STALE285d REVIEWED: 9 (8M) [PATCH v6 5/5] docs: efi: add CPER functions to driver-api
  2025-08-14 · Daniel Ferguson <hidden>
• STALE285d REVIEWED: 9 (8M) [PATCH v6 4/5] efi/cper: align ARM CPER type with UEFI 2.9A/2.10 specs
  2025-08-14 · Daniel Ferguson <hidden>
• STALE285d REVIEWED: 9 (8M) [PATCH v6 3/5] efi/cper: Add a new helper function to print bitmasks
  2025-08-14 · Daniel Ferguson <hidden>
• STALE285d REVIEWED: 9 (8M) [PATCH v6 2/5] efi/cper: Adjust infopfx size to accept an extra space
  2025-08-14 · Daniel Ferguson <hidden>
• STALE383d REVIEWED: 9 (8M) [PATCH v5 5/5] docs: efi: add CPER functions to driver-api
  2025-08-13 · Daniel Ferguson <hidden>

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• DORMANTno replies Re: [PATCH RFC v3 0/3] Add splash DRM client
  2026-05-12 · Francesco Valla <hidden>